Eagles Stay or Go — Is this the year Kendricks is moved?

Eagles Stay or Go — Is this the year Kendricks is moved?

Reuben Frank and Dave Zangaro continue our series examining the future of the world champion Eagles.

Jason KelceRoob: In the span of a year, Kelce has gone from a favorite whipping boy of fans to All-Pro center and legendary Super Bowl parade spokesman. Safe to say Kelce isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Give him credit for addressing his technique issues during the offseason and getting back to the point where he was one of the best centers in the NFL. Kelce was massive this year.

Verdict: STAYS

Dave: Remember when a bunch of fans wanted to run Kelce out of town? Not anymore. Now he's an All-Pro center at the top of his game. Kelce has been with the Eagles since 2011 and he is just now coming off his best NFL season. And he's still under contract through the 2020 season. If there are still any fans who don't like him, there's a really good chance Kelce doesn't bleeping care.

Verdict: STAYS

Mychal KendricksRoob: Whoever knows with Kendricks? Every year we expect the Eagles to get rid of him, and every year he's back. Kendricks had one heck of a bounce-back season this year and even though the big plays weren't really there, he played his most consistent brand of football from opening day through the Super Bowl. Kendricks has been here longer than everybody but Brent Celek, Jason Peters, Brandon Graham and Kelce, and I'd be surprised if he doesn't return for his seventh season in an Eagles uniform.

Verdict: STAYS

Dave: There was a time last winter when Kendricks requested a trade out of Philadelphia. Good thing the Eagles didn't give him what he wanted. Because once Jordan Hicks went down with an Achilles tear, the Eagles really relied on Nigel Bradham and Kendricks to keep the defense together. During his six years with the Eagles, Kendricks has had a pretty wild career. He was a second-round pick who started strong, got a huge deal, struggled, played less, wanted out, and now is a Super Bowl champion. Thanks to the contract extension he signed before the 2016 season, Kendricks is set to have a really high cap hit of $7.6 million this season and it rises to $8.6 million next year. It's just hard to imagine the Eagles moving on without another plan.

Verdict: STAYS

D.J. KillingsRoob: The Eagles like Killings enough that they gave him a significant pay raise when another team tried to snatch him off their practice squad. But where does he fit in? With Sidney Jones, Rasul Douglas, Ronald Darby and Jalen Mills, there isn't really room for another young corner. But Killings knows the defense and Jim Schwartz likes him. He has decent size and can run. If the Eagles get banged up at corner, he's a guy who could fill in right away.

Verdict: GOES

Dave: Killings, who has about the best name ever for a defensive back, joined the Eagles' practice squad in October and stayed the rest of the way. The team brought him back on their 90-man roster already this offseason. I honestly don't know much about the former UCF corner, but I do know the cornerback position is pretty full.

Mike Francesa admits to not really knowing what he was talking about with Kelce's speech

Mike Francesa admits to not really knowing what he was talking about with Kelce's speech

Mike Francesa probably wears flip flops in the city in the middle of winter.

The former radio host absolutely tore into Jason Kelce last week for his legendary speech on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Francesa even went so far as to say Jeff Lurie should cut Kelce for it.

“Should have stayed home, the jerk," Francesa begins on Kelce. "Why is that I have to be in my car when these guys win championships, and they decide that they are going to grace the audience with this profanity-laced stupidity. You gotta turn it off, your kids can’t even listen it. He sounded like a total moron. How about going up there and acting like a champion and not acting like a total moron? I turn that stuff off. I’ve seen LeBron James do that, now I’ve seen him do that. You know what? It’s not the time or place. You ever heard of winning like a champion? Somebody should have taken a hook and pulled him off.”

Bottom line is, I went back last night and watched the thing in its entirety, and I have to say, it was not as bad as I thought it was when I watched it and got to see it. I wish he hadn’t used any profanity because it would have been a classic, it was really well done, he did a great job. I thought it was one that would last and could be used a long time. I know it’s popular in Philly even with the profanity but to me those are such special moments that I wish they would raise their level. I’d like to see them do it so they can be used time and time again. Take the profanity out of it.

No. 1, I overreacted. I wouldn’t cut him. I take that back, I apologize to Kelce for that. No. 2, it was not as bad as I thought. I just wish he had raised his vocabulary a little. That was a great speech. He did a great job.

"Should have stayed home, the jerk!" to "That was a great speech. He did a great job." Okay.